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And to the intent that the praise honour goodness & commendation of holy wedlock may the more clearly appear, I will now set whoredom right over against it on the other ⟨image 43⟩side, and declare how shameful, vicious, & abominable it is before god & all honesty: That youth may love the honour of god, and avoid dishonesty: & y• every one may eschew vicious whoredom, and betake him to holy wedlock.

ANd to the entent that the praise honour goodnesse & cōmēdacion of holy wedlock may the more clearly appeare, I will now set whordome ryght ouer agaynste it on the other ⟨image 43⟩fyde, and declare how shamefull, vycious, & abhominable it is before god & all honestye: That youth may loue the honoure of god, and auoyde dishonesty: & y• euery one may eschewe vycious whordome, and betake hym to holy wedlocke.

Paul the chosen man of god writeth thus to the Corinthians: Fly from whoredom. All the ¹since that a man doth, are without his body but who so committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body. And immediately afore the said words, he expresseth the understanding of this sentence, & sayeth. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I than take Christs members, & make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Paul then wham he spake those words (All the since that a mā dothe, et c.) had respect unto wedlock. For like as wedlock maketh of two persons or bodies, one person and one body. Even so likewise ²the spiritual marriage, namely the receiving of gods grace, in that we are baptised into christ and become Christen maketh one body between Christ and us believers, so that we be called and are in deed Christs members. Now like as he y is married (if he take another beside his wife doth sin against his own body: Even so likewise doth that Christen man sin against his own body, if he commit whoredom. For